In this issue:

New Investors 2

News Flash 4

Disaster Assistance 6

Ca$h Mob 4

Chain O’Lakes Blues

Festival

8

Officers

Chair, Paul Shrode, Fox Valley Technical College Chair-Elect, Kirk Kallio, Waupaca Foundry Vice Chair / Secretary / Treasurer, William Lipschultz, Alter Metal Recycling Past Chair Craig Kantos, Riverside Medical Center

Directors Steven Bandy Abacus Investments Deborah Domask American Family Insurance Chris Enslin, Recover Health Trey Foerster, Journal Community Publishing Group R. Michael Jungers III A.J. Holly & Sons, Ltd Allyce Lees, The Paint Store Jerry Tiffany, Tiffany Complete Estate Planning Julie Thompson, Community First Credit Union Bill Zimmerman, Office Outfitters

Waupaca Area Chamber of Commerce, Inc. 7/31/2013 Volume 1, Issue 8

Newsline

Staff

President: Terri Schulz

Operations Director: Kathy LeClair

Tourism Director: Jeff Anderson

Information Services: Lynn Tolle

Sales Director: Tom Weiss

Here are ten traits that any great employer should recognize and reward instantly by Kevin Daum As a longtime employer of dozens, I was always grateful to have good employees. It takes a lot to recruit and maintain top talent. Every once in a while special employees come along that just really seem to get it. They drive the entire company forward in ways that were unimaginable. Advancement and reward is never an issue for these rock stars because they understand the power of cause and effect, and only a worthy company can retain them and afford them. Here are 10 things amazing employees seem to do effortlessly. Here's how to help your great employees be even more amazing. 1. Enthusiastically Learn All Aspects of Business: They understand they're part of something bigger and more worthwhile than just their job. They look to learn other areas of the business and be fluent in finance and management so they'll positively impact multiple areas of the company. What you can do: Invest in material and seminars on business basics like accounting, marketing, and management so all employees have easy access to learn and grow. 2. Steward the Company: They treat the company as if it were theirs. They look to make prudent decisions about expenses and opportunities with the long-term future of the company in mind. They easily assess risk vs. reward, selflessly when making decisions. What you can do: Be transparent in your business. The more you share your financials and philosophy, the easier it is for employees to make the right decisions. 3. Generate Viable Opportunities: You don't have to be in sales or marketing to help a company grow. Strong networkers from all divisions see company growth as a collective effort and constantly keep their eyes open for ways to more than pay for themselves. What you can do: Make sure all your employees understand your value proposition and can easily identify opportunities. Then reward them openly for their efforts. 4. Resolve Issues Before They Are Issues: My favorite days running companies are when I notice positive change in procedure when I was totally unaware of the need for change. Amazing employees are always looking to improve systems proactively, and they do. What you can do: Communicate a clear written vision of where the company is going and encourage initiative so people feel safe and empowered to make change. 5. Tell It Like It Is: Amazing employees understand that hiding bad news helps no one. They find kind ways to bring uncomfortable information to the surface, but they DO bring it to the surface. They tell people what's necessary before major damage is done. What you can do: Foster an open communication environment where people are not only given permission to tell the truth, but also absolutely required. 6. Demonstrate High Standards, With Low Maintenance: I always feel relaxed when I can trust an employee to perform a task to the same high standards I would expect from myself. Not all can do this without constant attention or difficulty. Amazing employees quietly drive their own high standards. What you can do: Set the example and the tone for high performance with minimal drama.

10 Things Really Amazing Employees Do

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Contact The Chamber if your business is interested in becoming a President’s Club Sponsor. 715-258-7343

Welcome New Investors

Waupaca Foundry Community First Credit

Union

Premier Community Bank Women’s Care of

Wisconsin, SC

Knight Barry Title Services, LLC 120 W. Union St Waupaca, WI 54981 Shannon L. Finnessy and Penny Harper (920) 757-2230 One of the Midwest’s largest title agencies.

Publicly reward those who can execute in the same manner.

7. Grow Themselves, and Others: They not only drive their own career but they inspire others to do the same. These employees lead by example in how to advance without creating animosity or resentment. They see and create their perfect future, and also bring others along. What you can do: Encourage personal development and peer growth through dedicated group time and learning for career advancement. 8. Research, Apply, and Refine: No employer expects people to know everything. In this fast changing world, I choose employees who will learn over those who know. The best employee proactively explores options, takes action and then improves without direction from the top. What you can do: Invest time in exploration and expansive thinking. Encourage people to explore deep visionary projects with time and reward for the findings. 9. Stimulate Happiness: Amazing employees aren't always sunshine and roses. They do know how to keep it real. But they understand the dynamics of people, stress, and the blend of work, life and friendship. They are self-aware and able to direct their own path that brings out their best with family, friends and career. They exude positive energy even in stressful times and share it around, making for a happier office. What you can do: Create an environment where people can openly express themselves. Encourage them to work hard in fulfilling ways and achieve their dreams. 10. Facilitate Amazing Bosses: Amazing employees make me grow as an employer. They self-confidently get their value and help me get mine. They make me want to be worthy of working with somebody of such high caliber, without ever saying it directly of course. What you can do: Make effort to genuinely show appreciation for any of the behaviors above so people feel their value and will grow to full potential. Then they will do the same for you.

Copied from INC.com/. An Inc. 500 entrepreneur with a more than $1 billion sales and marketing track record, KEVIN DAUM is the best-selling author of Video Marketing for Dummies.

Christensen Home Decorators, LLC E4690 Cty Hwy K Weyauwega, WI 54983 Bjorn Christensen 715-258-8816 A premier painting and wallpapering contractor in Central Wisconsin. Professional results, whatever the job.

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Reserve your date for hosting a Business After 5 in 2014. These months are still available: April 22, July 22, October

28, November 18, 2014. Contact Terri@WaupacaAreaChamber.com or 715-258-7343.

It was a very warm

evening but the food

was great and the

company was

extraordinary!

Congratulations to Giles Bellin for winning the

50/50 Raffle and Mary Burns, Morgan Behn, Jerry

Salan, Pat Johnson and Joey Leonard for winning

$20 Chamber Gift Certificates!

Thank you to these Businesses for their

generous donations:

Cellcom:Co Sponsor

Fox Valley Technical College: Potato Salad

General Beer, North East WI: Miller Products

Neumann’s Piggly Wiggly: Fresh Bakery Buns

Niemuth’s Steak & Chop Shop: Brats and Hotdogs

Recover Health, Chris Enslin: Desserts

Slivermist Garden Center: Potted Flowers

Turner’s Fresh Market: Sweet Corn and Melons

Waupaca Foundry: Tables

The Ultimate Shop Local Campaign!

Be a part of the Mob on:

September 18th at Dragonwings Bookstore

4-5p 108 N Main St, Waupaca

Dragonwings Bookstore just turned 18. Receive 18% off any total purchase over $18. Refreshments, too! (18% sale will be available all day.).Dragonwings Bookstore offers books, toys and gifts for children.

Or be the next to be Mobbed: Contact Kathy to sign up for October or November. It’s easy, You must have items for sale in the $15 dollar range, as Mob participants are asked to spend at least $15. And you are to have items that appeal to both sexes.

Kathy@WaupacaAreaChamber.com, 715-258-7343.

School District of Waupaca: Homecoming is the week of September 23-28th. The School is encouraging businesses to show their support by decorating a window, or offering a prize donation for the dance Saturday night, or any other ideas you may have to show support.

This year the Comets will be playing the Clintonville Truckers on Friday, Sept. 27th. To make a donation or share an idea please contact Cindy Ikert at 715-258-4131.

Cellcom: With the high school fall sports season coming up quickly, Varsity by Cellcom app provides great information on schedules, scores, stats and more. Since this app is only for Cellcom subscribers, it is the perfect app to mention

during the sales process or customer care calls. Available on Android and IOS operating systems. AT&T: Has acquired 32 cellular towers in its efforts to improve wireless service in northeast Wisconsin, including towers in Brown, Door, Sheboygan, Manitowoc and Kewaunee counties. The addition of the towers will add to network improvements AT&T completed in the area in 2012, including 4G LTE service in Green Bay. From 2010 through 2012, the company says it spent nearly $725 million on wireless and wired networks in Wisconsin.

Gusmer Enterprises: Congratulations to Chris and the team at Gusmer Enterprises on 75 years!

Member Investors Celebrating

September Anniversaries.

Congratulations!

Send your Anniversary date to

Kathy@WaupacaAreaChamber.com to be recognized.

Anniversaries to Celebrate!

Fox Valley Technical College - Waupaca 1912

Gusmer Enterprises, Inc. 1938

Neumann’s Piggly Wiggly 1981

Jim King, Ad Venture 1986

Community First Credit Union 1989

Orthopedic & Spine Therapy 1990

Centerline Machine, Inc. 1996

Ministry Medical Group 1997

Nelson’s Shell 1997

Christensen’s Orchard 1999

Firefly Floral & Gifts 2006

Chain O’ Lakes Chiropractic, LLC 2008

D & D Amusement & Games, LLC 2008

Kaye Anderson Attorney 2010

Summers End LLC 2012

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See what Circle of Life is

all about at the Chamber

Business After 5.

September 24

Circle of Life

N2919 County

Hwy QQ

5p to 7p

Mark Your Calendar

Disaster Assistance to Wisconsin Residents

Affected by Severe Storms and Tornadoes

Wisconsin residents and businesses affected by severe storms and tornadoes on August 6-7 can apply for low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, SBA Adminis-trator Karen G. Mills announced today.

Administrator Mills made the loans available in response to a let-ter from Gov. Scott Walker on Aug. 20, requesting a disaster dec-laration by the SBA. The declaration covers Outagamie County and the adjacent counties of Brown, Calumet, Shawano,

Waupaca, and Winnebago in Wisconsin.

“Businesses and non-profit organizations of any size may borrow up to $2 million to repair or replace damaged or destroyed real estate, machinery and equipment, inventory, and other business assets,” said Eric Ness, SBA’s Wisconsin district director.

Applicants may be eligible for a loan amount increase up to 20 percent of their physical damages, as verified by the SBA, to make improvements that help prevent the risk of future property damage caused by a similar disaster.

For small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small aqua-culture businesses and most private non-profit organizations of all sizes, the SBA offers Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) to help meet working capital needs caused by the disaster. EIDL assistance is available regardless of whether the business suf-fered any physical property damage.

Interest rates are as low as 1.937 percent for homeowners and renters, 2.875 percent for non-profit organizations and 4 percent for businesses with terms up to 30 years. Loan amounts and terms are set by the SBA and are based on each applicant’s fi-nancial condition.

Applicants may apply online using the Electronic Loan Application (ELA) via SBA’s secure website at

https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela.

The filing deadline to return applications for physical property damage is October 21, 2013. The deadline to return economic

injury applications is May 21, 2014.

September 2013 Waupaca Area Chamber of Commerce

221 S. Main Street, Waupaca, WI 54981 - Phone 715-258-7343 - Fax 715-258-7868

Office Hours: 8:00a - 5:00p Monday - Friday

Reminders:

1. The deadline for the newsletter advertisement submission is the 15th of each

month.

2. The Board of Directors usually meets on the second Tuesday of each month.

3. Business After 5 usually takes place on the fourth Tuesday of each month.

Note: The Waupaca Area Business of Commerce is a non-secular organization.

Holidays listed are legal holidays and are posted for business convenience only.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2

Chamber office

closed

3 4 RSB3 Network

8a Chamber

Conference Rm

5

LEADS Network 1

7:30a Breakfast

8:00a Network,

Comfort Suites

Business Welcome

Knight Barry Title

Services, LLC 10a

6

Member Support

Committee Mtg

7:30a Chamber

Conference Rm

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8 9

10 Board of

Directors Mtg,

7:30a Chamber

Conference Rm

Business

Welcome

Adventure

Outfitters, LLC

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11 Ambassador

Meeting,

Noon,

Chain Bar &

Grill

12 Golf Outing

Committee Mtg.

8a Chamber

Conference Rm

LEADS Network 2

12:30p Network

Chamber Conference

Rm

13

14

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16 17 Business

Enhancement

Committee Mtg

7:30a Chamber

Conference Rm

HR Network

Waupaca Foundry

Plants 2&3

3:45p

18 Ca$h Mob

4P Dragonwings

Bookstore

19 LEADS Network 1

7:30a Breakfast

8:00a Network,

Comfort Suites

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21

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Autumnal

Equinox

23

24 Political

Strategies

Committee

7:30a Chamber

Conference Rm

Business

After 5

at Circle of Life

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26 Tourism Promotion

Committee

7:30a Chamber

Conference Rm

LEADS Network 2

12:30p Network

Chamber Conference

Rm

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Mark your calendar for

October 4th & 5th

at the Indian Crossing Casino.

2013 Lineup

Friday

7:00 p.m. Robert Allen Jr. Band

9:00 p.m. The Jimmy’s

Saturday

3:00 p.m. Cash Box Kings

5:00 p.m. Alex Wilson Band

7:00 p.m. Reverend Raven & The Chain

Smokin’ Altar Boys

9:30 p.m. Bryan Lee

Tickets

Friday – $10 in advance, $15 at the door

Saturday, $15 in advance, $20 at the door

Weekend Pass – $20 in advance, $25 at the door

Advance Ticket Sales Available through September 30th

Must be 21 years of age to be admitted to the Festival.

Benefit of Waupaca Area Chamber Membership

New Business Share Plans from Cellcom!

Cellcom has launched a new plan that offers shareable data for business customers. The Business Share Plan lets employees share data with up to 100 devices within the same business account. Cellcom’s Business Share Plan includes:

Unlimited nationwide talk and unlimited messaging Mobile hotspot, basic or visual voicemail, caller ID, call waiting and three-way calling Shareable data for all devices on an account on the same plan.

To build a Business Share Plan, businesses first select up to 100 devices and pay a monthly line charge for each device. The cost ranges from $20 to $40 depending on the type of device. Then the business chooses up to two data buckets ranging from 500MB to 100GB. Depending on the amount of data selected, each data bucket can be shared with a maximum of 10, 25 or 50 devices. Cellcom recommends 1-2GB of data per smartphone on an account. A data calcula-tor is available on Cellcom’s website to help businesses decide how much data they need. Customers can adjust their data al-lowance at any time without extending the contract.

Businesses are able to have some lines on traditional business plans and some lines on a Business Share Plan within the same ac-count. Note that the data will only share with those lines on the Business Share Plan.

Mark Weber

CELLCOM

Business Wireless Consultant

Step 1: Select up to 100 devices

Step 2: choose the amount of data to share with those devices

Monthly line charge per de-vice

Shared data

Maxi-mum # of devices that can share the data

Discounted month-ly charge

Smartphones

$40 500MB*

10 $30

Basic phones

$30 1GB 10 $38

Mobile broad-band/USB modems

$20 2GB 10 $47.50

4GB 10 $57

6GB 10 $66.50

*For accounts with basic handsets only, data overage is $15/500MB on the 500MB plan. Data overage is $15/GB on 1GB+ plans.

8GB 10 $76

10GB 10 $85.50

15GB 10 $114

20GB 10 $142.50

1.5GB*

25 $42.75

30GB 25 $213.75

40GB 25 $285

50GB 25 $356

3GB* 50 $85.50

60GB 50 $427.50

80GB 50 $570

100GB

50 $712.50

For more information on these exciting new plans, call Mark Weber, Business Wireless Consultant, at 920-419-1660.